Standard second zone these days. Luckily I found a coral ring, found two piece of rare armor gear with 15+ hp AND took the hp node, all before the second zone. Otherwise this is an early race ender zone.

I wish I were religious, because I'd find comfort in knowing whoever came up with plumed chimera will be burning in hell one day.

Ended up dying to a pack of blue dischargers... AGAIN.
Tried to single target them, but guess what happens when you try that in this game?
Nothing happens to your target of course, but you end up in the middle of a giant pack taking the dick of about 15 monsters.

"When I close my eyes, I see this thing, a sign, I see this name in bright blue neon lights with a purple outline. And this name is so bright and so sharp that the sign - it just blows up because the name is so powerful... It says, "Diamond Supporter."

I got 2 desynch, complete with return to the logon screen ... it was awful (one of my first experience with desynch ... didn't like it !)

my windows seems to have updated something behind my back. so I'll let GGG off the hook this time :o

That's not desync. Desync is when your character is out of sync with the server, and gets rubberbanded to where you are on the server. Unrelated to connection lag or bad ping. Desync would never send you to the login screen, for example.